Download or read book Exploring Karkara Women s and Adolescent Girls Perceptions Toward Leadership Positions as A Vector of Empowerment written by Halima Therese Gbaguidi Adolphe and published by . This book was released on 2023 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Women's advancement and inclusion in society have been on the rise in many nations, but some countries still have not made significant improvements. The Niger Republic is one country in West Africa where gender inequality is still prevalent in contemporary times. Women and girls, particularly in the country's Karkara communities, have faced decades of gender discrimination due to unequal access to critical social and natural resources, educational opportunities, and services. This inequality has prevented them from participating fully in society and the decision-making process, attaining leadership positions, and learning skills crucial to their well-being. As a result of these gender disparities, few women hold leadership positions in the male-dominated sectors of society. In the Republic of Niger, since independence in 1960 to the present day, much ink has been spilled about the issue of women's involvement in leadership positions/roles. Women are constantly absent, misrepresented, and often excluded across different societal spheres. A recent report from the United Nations Development Program ranked Niger 154 out of 162 countries in terms of the Gender Inequality Index (UNDP, 2020), highlighting the stark inequalities facing women. The government has made progress in enhancing women's participation in many sectors, including the implementation in 2001 of the Quota Act (Alidou & Alidou, 2008). However, there is still persistent inequality in women's positions. Yet, despite its critical importance, the Quota Law has barely been respected since its inception, and even less, it does not necessarily apply to women and young girls in rural areas who are non-literate or without higher education. This inequality has prevented them from participating fully in society, attaining leadership positions, and learning skills crucial to their well-being. As a result of these gender disparities, few women hold leadership positions in the male-dominated sectors of society. The Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) were adopted by 193 countries across the globe (including Niger) in September 2015. These goals continue the work begun by the Millennium Development Goals, which were established in 2000 (United Nations, 2015). As part of the original Millennium Development Goals, women's empowerment and gender equality remained fundamental elements. A more sustainable world begins with gender equality as a fundamental human right. Gender equality also supports economic growth, peace, prosperity, and a stronger economy, hence the importance of this study. Currently, there is a dearth of published literature on rural women and girls in Niger, making it quite difficult to ascertain the nuanced situation of the inequalities faced by women and girls. Moreover, there is limited literature on leadership, especially regarding rural women and girls, which is critical to the conversations on advancing women in society. Therefore, this qualitative case study explores how rural women and girls view leadership within their community and how that can contribute to their empowerment. In other words, the study examines how Karkara women and adolescent girls perceive leadership as a vector of empowering them and future generations. The study focuses particularly on rural women and girls in three rural areas within the region of Tahoua in Niger. Findings show that leadership can be a vector to empowerment and that participants' influence in leadership roles is exhibited in diverse ways, such as their involvement in women's groups or associations, the community and within their household.

Download or read book Young Women and Leadership written by Katrina Lee-Koo and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2020-04-07 with total page 168 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Through a range of case studies in Asia and the Pacific, this edited collection highlights the extent of the unique ways in which young women lead to create change in their own lives and their communities, as well as in the structures, cultures, and institutions in which they live and work. This volume challenges and reshapes the boundaries and relationships of power that animate traditional attitudes to leadership by exploring the often overlooked role of women as leaders and drivers of social change. The text draws on a number of complex case studies in Asia and the Pacific in order to demonstrate how young women around the world have developed organised approaches to leadership that are often collective, collaborative, and transformative. However, as the authors reveal, they also deviate from traditional forms of leadership that have dominated the literature and public understanding. This book will be of interest to students and scholars of the theory and/or practice of leadership. More broadly, it will also be useful for students and scholars of political science, international studies, peace and conflict studies, international and community development, leadership studies, cultural studies, youth studies, and gender studies.

Download or read book Leadership Identity Development written by Lisa Ellen Cobb and published by . This book was released on 2014 with total page 239 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This study explored how leadership identity emerges and develops through the perceptions of adolescent girls who experienced leadership as cadet officers in a Junior ROTC program at a coeducational boarding school. Specifically, the study explored what influenced the cadets in their decision to pursue a position of leadership, how the cadets experienced leadership, and how their perceptions of themselves as leaders evolved during their leadership experience. The study was a qualitative, constructivist exploration through narrative inquiry. In-depth interviews were the primary source of data collection. The participants were purposefully selected female students who had been appointed to serve in significant positions of leadership in the ROTC program. In order to understand the social context and the organizational environment where the experience took place, additional data was collected through field observations and analysis of school documents. Among the major findings was that the structure of JROTC and the culture of the setting, Harrison Academy, encouraged the emergence of leadership identity by providing opportunities for authentic leadership, role models, and mentors. Another finding was that the motivation to lead was fostered by the desire to please a parent who served as a role model, by a drive for personal achievement, and by an interest in making a positive difference. As a result of their leadership experience, the participants developed leadership skills, a broadening understanding of leadership, and self-confidence. The participants’ leadership identity developed from an awareness of leadership, to pursuit of a leadership role, to active engagement in leadership, and helping to develop the leadership potential of others. Recommendations of the study are to provide more authentic leadership opportunities to adolescents and to encourage participation of young women in the following ways: by communicating a leadership mission or a set of goals that are focused on providing a positive benefit to the group or to the community, by emphasizing both the challenge in becoming an effective leader and the pride in achievement, by providing mentors, and by highlighting the achievement of other young women who have become leaders in order to provide role models that help young women to envision the possibility of leadership for themselves.

Download or read book Empowering Adolescent Girls in Developing Countries written by Caroline Harper and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2018-02-13 with total page 211 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Open Access version of this book, available at http://www.tandfebooks.com/doi/view/10.4324/9781315180250, has been made available under a Creative Commons Attribution-Non Commercial-No Derivatives 4.0 license Adolescence is a pivotal time in a girl's life. The development of educational, physical, psychosocial, familial, political and economic capabilities enable girls to reach their full potential and contribute to the wellbeing of their families and society. However, progress is still significantly constrained by discriminatory gender norms and the related attitudes and practices which restrict girls’ horizons, restrain their ambition and, if unfettered, allow exploitation and abuse. Empowering Adolescent Girls in Developing Countries explores the detrimental impact of discriminatory gender norms on adolescent girls’ lives across very different contexts. Grounded in four years of in-depth research in Ethiopia, Nepal, Uganda and Viet Nam, the book adopts a holistic approach, recognising the inter-related nature of capabilities and the importance of local context. By exploring the theory of gendered norm change, contextualising and examining socialisation processes, the book identifies the patriarchal vested interests in power, authority and moral privilege, which combine in attempts to restrict and control girls’ lives. Throughout the book, Empowering Adolescent Girls in Developing Countries demonstrates how efforts to develop more egalitarian gender norms can enable disadvantaged adolescent girls to change the course of their lives and contribute to societal change. Accessible and informative, the book is perfect for policy makers, think tanks, NGOs, activists, academics and students of gender and development studies.

Download or read book Building Everyday Leadership in All Teens written by Mariam G. MacGregor and published by Free Spirit Publishing. This book was released on 2016-02-22 with total page 241 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Every teen can be a leader. That’s because leadership is not just about taking the lead in big ways, but in everyday small things, too. The 21 sessions in this youth leadership curriculum guide teens to explore ethical decision-making, team-building, what it means to be a leader, how to work with others, risk-taking, communication, creative thinking, and more. Choose the sessions that seem best for your class or group, or explore leadership skills through an entire school year. The revised and updated 2nd edition includes the Everyday Leadership Skills & Attitudes (ELSA) inventory, a leadership measurement tool, as well as reproducible handouts, evaluation tools, and exams. Access to digital content includes the reproducible handouts from the book, the student inventory of leadership skills and evaluation tools, and lots of bonus material. Requires use of the student book, Everyday Leadership.

Download or read book Adolescent Girls and Leadership written by Donna Isabelle Horn and published by . This book was released on 2003 with total page 368 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Educating Girls for Transformative Leadership written by Christine W. Aulicino and published by . This book was released on 2006 with total page 139 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Future leaders are now students in our nation's schools. Schools need to take an active role in educating all their students in the skills and concepts of transformative leadership in order to assure the nation of strong leaders in the future. the following study explores the perceptions that adolescent girls have about the concept and practice of leadership. Through close examination of the words and images girls use to talk about leadership, the study uncovers the ways girls see leadership and how it fits or doesn't fit into their present and future lives. Data to illuminate the question were collected through a series of one-on-one interviews with high school girls, informed and supplemented by surveys administered to a larger number of students and by interviews with women school leaders. Data analysis was done using grounded theory methodology. the research brings together data from three different sources and develops a picture of how girls perceive leadership.

Download or read book African American Girls written by Faye Z. Belgrave and published by Springer. This book was released on 2011-10-17 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Over the past 15 years, I have had the opportunityto conduct research and interv- tion programming with African American girls. Several of my graduate students, mostly African American women, pursuing their doctorates in psychology worked closely with me in this work. We have conducted hundreds of literature reviews, read many journal articles and reports, published many papers, and engaged over a thousand African American adolescent girls in a cultural curriculum speci?cally designed for them. This book was written to summarize this work and was c- ceived to be an educational resource for diverse audiences who work with African American girls including: (1) researchers who conduct research and intervention programming; (2) professionals who work with African American adolescent girls such as teachers, social workers, prevention specialists, therapists and counselors, and mental health workers; and (3) a general audience of persons with an interest in African American adolescent female’s well-being and developmentsuch as parents, community leaders, girl’s group leaders (i. e. , Girl Scout leaders), and church and spiritual leaders. This book is both descriptive and practical. Each chapter covers the most current literature on African American adolescent girls, and reviews and discusses ways in which they are similar to and unique from girls in other ethnic groups and from African American boys. An understanding of who they are and how they function allows us to make recommendations about ways to support these girls and to re- cus and/or strengthen already positive attributes.

Download or read book Adolescent Female Leadership written by Kiley Christensen and published by . This book was released on 2015 with total page 120 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "A cultural history of gender inequality due to patriarchal social systems has resulted in a lack of women?s leadership. A broad and encompassing definition of leadership, has limited our ability to understand adolescent female leadership. However, research studies determine that adolescent female leadership programming can act as an empowering tool, which increases self-esteem and leadership behavior among girls. This study explores the experiences of young women who are currently participating in a leadership forum to better understand their development as leaders. Findings from this research show that the developing identity of young women continues to be influenced by systems of patriarchy and gender-role stereotypes. The findings also suggest that empathic leadership and a community of shared leadership proves to be effective theories in adolescent leadership programming."--author's abstract.

Download or read book Occupational Interests of Adolescent Girls and Their Relationship to Perceived Women s Roles written by Eileen E. Zannino and published by . This book was released on 1976 with total page 192 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book State of the World s Children written by and published by UNICEF. This book was released on 2009 with total page 52 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: On 20 November 2009, the global community celebrates the 20th anniversary of the adoption by the United Nations General Assembly of the Convention on the Rights of the Child, the unique document that sets international standards for the care, treatment and protection of all individuals below age 18. To celebrate this landmark, the United Nations Children's Fund is dedicating a special edition of its flagship report The State of the World's Children to examining the Convention's evolution, progress achieved on child rights, challenges remaining, and actions to be taken to ensure that its promise becomes a reality for all children. The statistical tables presented in this volume assist in meeting the demand for timely, reliable, comparable and comprehensive data on the state of the world's children.

Download or read book Children in Globalising India written by Enakshi Ganguly Thukral and published by HAQ Centre for Child Rights. This book was released on 2002 with total page 398 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Contributed articles.

Download or read book The State of the World s Children 2006 written by UNICEF. and published by UNICEF. This book was released on 2005 with total page 156 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The 2006 edition of UNICEF's annual report focuses on the millions of children who are most in need of access to essential education, health and protection services, but who are also the hardest to reach and often overlooked by current development programmes. These include children living in the poorest countries and most deprived communities within countries, children who face discrimination on the basis of gender, ethnicity or disability, children caught up in armed conflicts or affected by HIV/AIDS, children who lack a formal identity and who suffer from abuse and exploitation. The report examines the factors which result in their exclusion from current child development programmes and services, and highlights the policy options and actions required to address these challenges, in order to ensure all children benefit from the progress being made to achieve the Millennium Development Goals. Topics discussed include: income disparities and child survival, the marginalisation of Roma communities and their children, disability issues, children and HIV/AIDS, children living on the streets, early marriages, child labour, child protection and child rights.

Download or read book Yehezkel Kaufmann and the Reinvention of Jewish Biblical Scholarship written by Job Y. Jindo and published by Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht. This book was released on 2017 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The biblical scholar, historian, and Jewish thinker Yehezkel Kaufmann (1889-1963) is best known for two magisterial works: a two-volume interpretation of Jewish history and a four-volume study of biblical religion. Toledot in particular is the most monumental achievement of modern Jewish biblical scholarship. No other figure, not even Martin Buber, has had such a profound influence on the work of Jewish scholars of the Bible. The volume provides a comprehensive and multi-faceted account of Kaufmann's work, through which Anglophone readers, students and scholars alike, can explore the hitherto unrecognized significance and profundity of Kaufmann's legacy.

Download or read book Livestock Emergency Guidelines and Standards written by and published by Practical Action. This book was released on 2009 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: International guidelines and standards for the design, implementation and assessment of livestock interventions to assist people affected by humanitarian crises, LEGS expands the commitment in the Sphere handbook towards supporting livelihood assets, presenting clear and practical options for supporting livestock during and following disasters.

Download or read book The State of the World s Children 2011 written by and published by UNICEF. This book was released on 2011-02 with total page 148 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The State of the World's Children 2011: Adolescence - An Age of Opportunity examines the global state of adolescents; outlines the challenges they face in health, education, protection and participation; and explores the risks and vulnerabilities of this pivotal stage. The report highlights the singular opportunities that adolescence offers, both for adolescents themselves and for the societies they live in. The accumulated evidence demonstrates that investing in adolescents' second decade is our best hope of breaking the intergenerational cycle of poverty and inequity and of laying the foundation for a more peaceful, tolerant and equitable world.

Download or read book The Youth Employment Crisis written by International Labour Office and published by ILO/IPEC. This book was released on 2012 with total page 122 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Reviews the characteristics of the youth employment crisis in its quantitative and qualitative dimensions across different regions and countries, and discusses new emerging challenges, such as educated unemployment and the increasing "detachment" of youth from labour markets. Analyses the patterns of interventions and policies implemented by countries around the world since the last general discussion. Highlights the key lessons that can be drawn from the experience of, and the responses to, the global financial crisis. Covers a broad range of the policy areas included in the conclusions of the Conference's 2005 discussion, ranging from macroeconomic considerations to labour market policies and programmes, entrepreneurship development, rights and labour markets institutions, social protection and other factors affecting the demand and supply and the quantity and the quality of employment.